installing through telnet on a unix platform

[scott andreas <scott@webmarketers.net>]

hello all,
I have been trying many times to install minivend on our virtual host
running on sun O/S. I admit my unix is not up to snuff, but what I do
know is that this install with all the documentation should not be that
difficult. Here is the problem, I've gunzipped the file, worked out
fine, then I untarred the file in to a directory that I have created. I
know that worked ok since all the files are in that directory. I chmod
that directory to 755 and then I've ran the ./configure. My perl program
is located in usr/local/bin/ directory. When I execut the ./configure it
proceed and outputs
 MiniVend Version 3.0x Configuration

 Copyright 1996-1998 Michael J. Heins, <mikeh@minivend.com>

 MiniVend is largely based on Vend 0.2
 Copyright 1995 Andrew M. Wilcox <awilcox@maine.com>

 Portions from Vend 0.3
 Copyright 1995, 1996 Andrew M. Wilcox <awilcox@maine.com>

 Distributed under the GNU General Public License, see
 the file Copying for license information.

Found Perl 5.00502 as /usr/bin/perl
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good

 MiniVend V3.14-3

 Copyright 1996-1999 by Michael J. Heins <mikeh@minivend.com>

 MiniVend is free under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

and stops there. It doesn't proceed into creating  the first catalog
'simple'.
I've tryed install in manually by running /usr/local/bin/perl
Makefile.PL and that only leaves to a >prompt then I proceed with the
make, the make test and the make install and each input just takes me to
the next prompt...nothing happens at all. What did I miss, it install
nicely on my windows machine. Any help that you could offer would be
greatly appreciated

Thank you,
scott andreas
scott@webmarketers.net